“It will create opportunities for getting the Super Bowl, a lot of events and so forth in the stadium,” said Manuel Rodriguez.

At the Miami-Dade Elections headquarters in Doral no one was really surprised that there wasn’t a rush of early voters.

“Turnout so far today has been pretty light but that’s common on the first day of early voting,” said deputy elections supervisor Christine White.

The slow start may be partly due to the fact that elections managers had half the amount of time to advertise this election than they normally do.

“Typically we have about 60 days at least to prepare for an election, in this case it was somewhere around 34, but we took all the same quality assurance measures, we did all the same types of public awareness that we could. It was just within the shorter time frame,” said White.

On the ballot, voters will be asked to approve using 7,500,000 dollars a year, adjusted annually for growth, from additional tourist room taxes to modernize the stadium.

Conditions that also must be met are that the Dolphins’ remaining long-term in county, private funding must be used for a majority of the costs, the stadium owners must pay the county at least 112,000,000 dollars in 30 years, the stadium owners would also be responsible for penalties up to 120,000,000 dollars for not bringing premier football and soccer events to stadium and being awarded a Super Bowl this May.